HR Advisor FTC in Washington

Overview

We are one of the UK’s leading independent hospital groups and the largest in terms of revenue. From our 38 hospitals and 33 clinics, medical centres and consulting rooms across England, Wales, and Scotland, we provide diagnostics, inpatient, day case and outpatient care in areas including orthopaedics, gynaecology, cardiology, neurology, oncology, and general surgery. We also operate a network of private GPs and provide occupational health services to over 700 corporate clients.

Key Responsibilities

• Driving effective workforce planning through regular workforce discussions with the hospital Senior Management Team.
• Being an advocate of wellbeing for the hospital and Spire, promoting all relevant tools, support mechanisms, and communication channels on a regular basis.
• Actively managing absence within the hospital to reduce short term absence and manage effectively long-term absence.
• Supporting managers in managing absent colleagues, ensuring the colleague feels supported whilst managing the departmental resource appropriately.
• To provide high quality consistent HR advice in line with Spire policy, procedure, and best practice.
• Supporting managers in performance management processes, disciplinary, grievance issues, attendance matters and change management.
• Attending where required as HR support for the manager, in such meetings and discussions.
• Ensuring all employee relations issues are managed in a timely manner, prioritising workload.
• Making sure that diversity and equality, fairness and consistency is applied to all discussions, decisions with managers and colleagues, whilst balancing the needs of the business.
• To develop manager capability to implement and manage people policies and procedures.

Key Requirements

• Level 5 CIPD Qualification or equivalent.
• Demonstrable experience as a HR Advisor or in another HR based role.
• Knowledge of HR functions and systems.
• An understanding of employment laws and disciplinary/grievance procedures.
• Ability to identify and implement business focused solutions.
• Aptitude for problem-solving and decision-making, alongside managing complex queries.
• Capability to build strong relationships.
• Strong organisational skills with ability to prioritise workload.
• Excellent communication skills, with the ability to influence at all levels.
• Ability to manage confidential information appropriately.
• High personal standards and quality of work output with outstanding organisational and time-management abilities.

Spire Healthcare is committed to creating an environment that will attract, retain, and motivate its people. We are an equal opportunities employer, committed to the health and wellbeing of all our colleagues and consultants. We firmly believe that it is our people that make the business successful, and everyone should have the opportunity to work in a motivated team, free from discrimination on any grounds.